small shop/garage ideas?

mustangmike6996

mustangmike6996

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I, and Im assuming most members on here, don't have a huge garage or shop. What space saving ideas or devices do you have or know of?

I have a standard 2 car garage and its is just deep enough to park at the end of the garage and squeeze by the vehicle. I don't have a ton of room on the sides either

Some things I have been considering are:

Fold up metal welding table/assembly table

Raise all of my shelving higher and put all my bolt bins/paint cabinet higher on the wall to avoid obstructions around the perimeter of the shop.


Some things I wish I had more room for:

sheet metal fab area, larger work bench, my professional tool box....

I have a large matco box at a different house with all of my craftsman tools in it and I am currently limited to a small craftsman box with all of my matco tools in it lol.

Any tips or tricks to add. Maybe this thread can help someone out down the line who is building a shop or outfitting an existing work space.
 
i like this thread..hopefully there are some ideas. im working out of a 2 car garage before i rent a small building, so far it sucks room wise due to a big body mopar being stored on one side and the side i have to work on has benches, tool boxes, cabinets,ect.
 
I have a 51 Ford F1 truck and a 3 place jet ski trailer in my garage. The trailer is a pain to move in/out The truck is getting fab work done soon so I have to jockey small projects around as it is.

I have my 69 Mustang and all of my larger tools/ bench grinder/ anything in a blow molded case/ engine stand/ cherry picker all at another house because I have zero extra room for all of that stuff.

I figured that there would be some decent suggestions due to many members in the metro Detroit area having smaller older homes.
 
Build a shelf up in the peak of the garage and wedge your compressor up there and off the floor. just make sure you can drain it, Drill a hole and run a pipe and valve down.
 
347convert said:
Build a shelf up in the peak of the garage and wedge your compressor up there and off the floor. just make sure you can drain it, Drill a hole and run a pipe and valve down.
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I have a 60 gal upright. Im not sure that I can do exactly that, but I do really like that idea!
 
mustangmike6996 said:
I have a 60 gal upright. Im not sure that I can do exactly that, but I do really like that idea!
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If you think its prolly only 6' tall the rafter area is more like 5', so even if the base is a 1' lower than the rafter...

Plus you could take the intake out the roof or side of the peak and really quiet it down in there...
 
347convert said:
If you think its prolly only 6' tall the rafter area is more like 5', so even if the base is a 1' lower than the rafter...

Plus you could take the intake out the roof or side of the peak and really quiet it down in there...
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I cant even imagine putting the compressor up there. That thing was heavy as hell trying to get it out of a truck
 
Every garage needs a stereo, PC of some sorts, and a wifi bridge (if garage is detached). I have an old laptop, pair of bookshelf speakers with an old magnavox tube amp, and a router configured as a repeater/bridge so I have access to the technical resources I need. Having 3 routers deployed between my house and garage, I always have nice speedy wifi everywhere.
 
Tin said:
Every garage needs a stereo, PC of some sorts, and a wifi bridge (if garage is detached). I have an old laptop, pair of bookshelf speakers with an old magnavox tube amp, and a router configured as a repeater/bridge so I have access to the technical resources I need. Having 3 routers deployed between my house and garage, I always have nice speedy wifi everywhere.
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When I tear down my garage and do my basement... Definitely going to need your help....
 
ReiKo said:
When I tear down my garage and do my basement... Definitely going to need your help....
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Let me know when, I'll hook it up good. I have mine set up in a similar manner to how a cell phone network runs. With your typical bridges, you have to manually disconnect from one and connect to the next since they all run on different channels. My setup uses one channel only, and the routers hand off the device between each other so you can transparently roam between them without having to disconnect. Works just like a cell phone network in the sense that your phone automatically hops to the tower with the best signal :thumbsup:. Also great if your phone supports wifi calling, since you can roam around your property and not drop the call due to the phone not being handed off to the next node.
 
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Just put a shed up at my place a week ago. Makes a huge difference getting all the mis. crap out of the way. Also added a pull down stair case and floored the attic area, its not huge due to the garage having a 10' ceiling but its works perfect to store totes and boxes in that's low use items.
 
I have a huge shed in my back yard. Its about a 150 foot walk to it but I suppose I could keep my cherry picker and engine stand in there then just use a dolly to get it back to the garage.
 
depending on your rafters, you could coller tie it and put a lift in.....list one car up and you got room for another under.
 
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